I spent the last three months using an AI-first editor. At first, it felt like a superpower. I could hit a keyboard shortcut, describe a feature, and watch 50 lines of React code appear. It felt fast. Then, the bugs started hitting.
I realized I had developed a dangerous habit: I was accepting code I did not fully understand. When a production bug appeared in a component written by the AI, I spent forty minutes trying to figure out the logic because I had not actually written it. I was the reviewer of my own code, but I was a lazy reviewer.
Here is how I changed my workflow to actually stay in control.
The Trap of the Big Prompt
The biggest mistake is asking for a whole feature in one go. If you prompt "Build me a paginated table with sorting and filtering," the AI will give you a massive block of code. It will look correct. It will probably work on the first run.
